Hi Bill, I am partial to handling it in the default servlet. I agree the root context can't speak definitively for all contexts, but I think it has a better chance of knowing a proper response than the connector.
Keith | -----Original Message----- | From: Bill Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:08 AM | To: Tomcat Developers List | Subject: [RFC] Handling the '*' URL | | | This is really a Request-For-Comments, I'm not proposing anything. I'm | looking into resolving Bug #21454. | | At the moment, requests for e.g: | OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1 | TRACE * HTTP/1.1 | get properly handled by TC 5 (thanks to Keith's patch), buy passing them to | DefaultServlet. However, the '*' URL is really a HTTP Protocol URL, so it | seems to me that it really should be handled by the Connector instead of the | Servlet. On the other hand, we have access to the rich Servlet-API | implementations (Ok, so I don't in 3.3-land, but I can fake it ;-). So my | problem is that I can't see the correct route to go here. | | Opinions? | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
